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B. make the District boundaries "make sense" relative to current land use plans and property <br /> ownership in the area, thereby avoiding split lots, split buildings, and split neighborhoods <br /> where part of the property in the area is "in" and part is"out" of the District. <br /> The existing District boundaries split the proposed townhome and apartment project and <br /> at least one proposed building within that project. Including the Property into the District, as <br /> proposed, would avoid this split, allow uniform property taxes within that portion of the <br /> development, simplify valuation by the County Assessor, and avoid one neighbor having a <br /> different tax rate than the neighbor next door. This Service Plan Amendment authorizes <br /> inclusion in the District of only the Property as described in Exhibit A. <br /> Section 2. To request and obtain the City's approval of the elimination of the <br /> District's authority to impose a System Development Fee ("SDF") or similar impact fee upon <br /> any property in the District. <br /> The original Service Plan included provisions that allowed the District to impose an SDF <br /> or similar fee against property in the District to help pay the debt service on the District's bonds. <br /> To date, the District has not used this SDF authority and the District issued its bonds believing <br /> that an SDF would not be needed. Development of the commercial area in the District has gone <br /> more slowly than hoped and part of the residential product mix is proposed to be changed from <br /> condos to apartments, thereby changing the projected assessed valuation of the District, <br /> suggesting that an SDF or some other new revenue source might be put in place to make sure <br /> that debt service will be paid on time throughout the life of the bonds. The addition of new tax <br /> 2 <br />